First lessons in wood-working by Compton Alfred G. (Alfred George) 1835-1913

Author:Compton, Alfred G. (Alfred George), 1835-1913
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York : Ivison, Blakeman, and Company

we shall find that this angle has very different values, reaching even to 90° in some lathe-tools for cutting metals.

There are several different ways of holding the chisel, according to the kind of work to be done and the force required.

1. In paring off thin shavings the chisel is intermediate, as to the quality of the work it can do, between the knife and the plane. We will take, for an exercise of this kind, a piece of pine or of whitewood with a rough or crooked edge, which we will make straight and smooth as in Exercise 4, but with the chisel instead of the knife. We will cut from a li" or \\" plank a piece 9 inches long, and will split from this, with the hatchet, pieces about 2" wide. We will select for the purpose a plank which, though of good quality, is not very straight-grained, so as to give us some little difficulty in dealing with the grain.

Holding one of these pieces in the vise, with one of the crooked edges upward, take the end of the handle of the chisel in the hollow of the right hand, the thumb and first

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